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Report of Committee on Snow, 1942–43

1943; American Geophysical Union; Volume: 24; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1029/tr024i002p00341-2

2379-6723

J. E. Church, Walter U. Garstka, Matthew Balls, Henry I. Baldwin, H. T. Barnes, H. K. Barrows, Paul L. Bean, Merrill Bernard, H. P. Boardman, Phil E. Church, George D. Clyde, E. Hobart Collins, E. S. Cullings, E. B. Debler, Carl Elges, R. C. Farrow, D. B. Freeman, Laurence M. Gould, Gail A. Hathaway, Eric Hinton, William Herbert Hobbs, O. H. Hoover, Joseph Kittredge, Ray K. Linsley, W. W. McLaughlin, J Macvicar, James C. Marr, F. E. Matthes, Gerard H. Matthes, Lacey V. Murrow, Fred H. Paget, Salvatore Pagliuca, Bestor Robinson, J. Ryan, L. K. Sherman, Alden K. Sibley, Harlowe M. Stafford, R. G. Stone, Walter T. Wilson, R. A. Work,

Cryospheric studies and observations

The personnel of the Committee has been continued into the new‐triennium. RAY K. LINSLEY, specialist in snow‐runoff, J. D. Mac VICAR, pioneer in the physics of snow‐removal, WALTER T. WILSON, specialist in snow‐melting, and WALTER U. GARSTKA, Secretary of the Central Snow‐Conference, have been added and the last appointed Vice‐Chairman in place of Captain RICHARD C. FARROW now in Europe. The season of 1942–43 The season has been one of temperature extremes geographically—as usually happens between the East and the West. The East has experienced a severe winter and the West a mild one with rain and floods. Water‐storage is heartening in the East and superabundant in most parts of the West.